@article{3044559, title = "ALGEBRAIC IDEALS OF SEMIPRIME BANACH-ALGEBRAS", author = "GIOTOPOULOS, S and ROUMELIOTIS, M", journal = "Glasgow Mathematical Journal", year = "1991", volume = "33", number = "3", pages = "359-363", publisher = "Oxford Univ Press, Oxford, United Kingdom", issn = "0017-0895, 1469-509X", doi = "10.1017/S0017089500008429", abstract = "If A is a semiprime Banach algebra, soc A, rad A the socle and radical of A, then soc A intersect rad A = (0). This elementary result enables us to prove some results concerning algebraic ideal and algebraic elements modulo the socle of A. We also deduce several conditions for A equivalent to the condition dim A < + infinity." }